MTI awarded security services Royal Warrant

Datacentre and security services and solutions practice MTI has announced it has been a Royal
Warrant as provider of data security services to Her Majesty the Queen.

The honour was conferred on the Godalming-based provider after the Royal Warrant Holders
Association agreed to transfer the Royal Warrant to MTI from GlobalSecure
systems, which it acquired in 2011 and now forms the core of MTI’s security practice

David Hobson, Director of MTI's Security Practice, said: “The award of Her Majesty’s Royal
Warrant to MTI is a great honour. It is testament to the high quality of our services and solutions
and is a strong endorsement of all the work conducted over many years for the Royal Household by
all MTI staff.”

Keith Clark, President and CEO of MTI, added: “MTI is very proud of the award of the Royal
Warrant, which demonstrates the expertise of our security practice. I congratulate the team on this
most prestigious honour.”

The five-year warrants can currently only be awarded by three members of the Royal Family; the
Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles, and are only ever granted to people or companies that
have supplied goods or services to the family.

MTI joins a select group of channel firms with special letterheads; Azzurri
currently holds a Royal Warrant for provision of comms services, and Newcastle-based Croft
Technology, acquired in 2010
by TSG, was also handed the badge a few years ago.

But the channel’s connections with royalty extend further back as well. In the ‘90s, prior to
its acquisition by HP, a senior executive at Compaq made the back pages of MicroScope after
sharing a moan with Prince Edward about being hounded by the paparazzi over his private life, or,
in this case, reseller management strategy.

"I have a similar problem with a magazine called MicroScope," the executive told the Prince,
back then a confirmed bachelor, who no doubt felt much better at having his own problems put
into context.

Despite requests for comment the Royal Family was unaccountably busy on the afternoon of 22 July
2013.

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